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iPads: Week 4 - Garage Band

Garage Band is such a fun and free app to use with the iPads! Although it can be loud (especially if your kids start singing to add their own vocals), it is so worth watching them create. I do not know about you, but I love activities that let my students express their creativity. I sometimes create assignments with limited parameters, just to see what they can come up with. This does take excellent classroom management skills (which I only have some days) in order for your students to stay on task and work hard, just be forewarned.

Anyways, if you haven't ever used Garage Band, it is pretty self explanatory. First you choose your instrument from keyboard, drummer, drums, guitar, world, amp, strings, bass, and audio recorder.


Then you choose one of the options for instrument preference.



Then you play around until you get a feel for the instrument. Once you have decided what kind of noise you want to record, you click the red record button at the bottom to record your jam. When you're done, you just click the stop button. You can listen to it, rerecord it, or move on to another instrument. 


This is an activity that I created for my students. It has limited directions, but helps them know where to find all of the Garage Band features. I used this in 2nd - 4th grade with my kiddos, and it was a blast. Check it out in my store here to snatch it up for only $1!


Jam On,
Hilary 

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